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New School

An Afghan school girl named Sadera sits in a classroom after the inauguration ceremony of Mollia Girls School in the Ghorband district of northern Parwan province Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. The girls' school of Mollia is centrally located to service five village communities comprised of approximately 350 school-age girls.

Credit: AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq

Hair-Raising Cause

A Filipino inmate at the National Penitentiary gets his hair cut to help mop up the oil spill off Guimares Island on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines. Prisons as well as hair salons are taking part in the "Stop the Oil Spill" drive by collecting hair clippings which are said to be useful in cleaning up oil. More than 11,000 inmates have volunteered to be shaved for the cause.

Credit: Getty Images/Paula Bronstein

Debris Dump

A man sticks his head out window of his truck, one of scores filled with ruins collected from the heavily damaged southern suburbs of Beirut lined up to empty their load on the coast of Ouzai, south of Beirut, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Donor nations vowed to help Lebanon rebuild its smashed infrastructure, shelter the homeless and remove unexploded ordnance after the 34-day Israeli bombing offensive.

Credit: Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images

Roses For Diana

Red roses are placed near a photograph of Diana, Princess of Wales, on the gates of her former home, Kensington Palace, in London, Thursday Aug. 31, 2006. Ardent admirers of Princess Diana laid flowers at the gates of her former home on Thursday, the ninth anniversary of her death in a car crash.

Credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth

Ready For Trouble

Pakistani police officers with their riot gear stand alert on a road where activists of a nationalist alliance stage a protest rally to condemn the killing of Baluch tribal chief Nawaz Akbar Bugti, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistani soldiers searching a cave found the body of the fugitive tribal leader whose death in a military raid sparked large-scale unrest.

Credit: AP Photo/Shakil Adil

Blast Scene

An Iraqi army soldier views the wreckage of a car used as a car bomb targeting a police patrol, in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday Aug. 31, 2006, wounding two policemen. Iraqi forces will take over security control of a southern province from coalition troops next month, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said.

Credit: AP Photo/Hadi Mizban

Storm Surfing

A surfer rides a wave generated by Tropical Storm Ernesto Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, in Tybee Island, Ga. A hurricane watch was issued for the Carolina coast as Ernesto gained strength over the Atlantic.

Credit: AP Photo/Stephen Morton

Cubs' Play

Two lion cubs play in their habitat at the Cameron Park Zoo Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006, in Waco, Texas. The cubs were born at the zoo in June. They will soon be integrated into an exhibit with their parents.

Credit: AP/Waco Tribune-Herald, D. Laverty

Kosovo Drills

German soldiers of the Multi National Task Force South of the KFOR practice during a presentation for German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung, not in picture, in Prizren, Kosovo, on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006. Jung is on a two day trip to Kosovo to visit the German KFOR troops.